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Auckland Marathon in Auckland
The Auckland Marathon is a late-October or early-November road race that crosses the Auckland Harbour Bridge, the first sporting event ever to do so when the modern annual race began in 1992. Offering distances from 5 kilometres to the full marathon plus a wheelchair event, it now draws more than 17,000 runners and walkers along a course through Devonport, over the bridge, and along Tamaki Drive to Victoria Park.
The Auckland Harbour Bridge carries tens of thousands of vehicles across the Waitemata Harbour every day, and for the rest of the year it is entirely closed to pedestrians and cyclists.